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Cuestion. i prompted this? well, very important question. ithink— prompted this? well, very important question. i think it _ prompted this? well, very important question. i think it is _ prompted this? well, very important question. i think it is important - prompted this? well, very important question. i think it is important to i question. i think it is important to point out that this diplomatic effort, which are happening for the last days, and very intensive talks between the european lea...

Theres no way to overestimate the gravity of it. vladimir putin has ordered troops into eastern ukraine. according to a senior government official familiar with the latest intelligence, the expectation is they could move in as soon as tonight. what would be the early morning hours. whats more, it is underscored by the enormous number of russian forces you see on the maam. nearly a dozen officials now tell cnn what weve seen so far today appears to be the opening salvo of a larger possible milita...

That putin could use and all of it in the cyber realm, so i think -- and the general information operations, misinformation, disinformation, those kinds of things that i think he would employ against former orbit -- countries that were formerly in the soviet orb which he also feels very defensive about because he views them as unfriendly, so i dont think just because of what happens in ukraine, i dont think its going to be the end of it, and i certainly dont think that if he incorporates these t...

Support this dish decision and to ratify the treaty on friendship and mutual assistance with both republics —— to support this decision. those two documents are being drawn up and will be signed very shortly. of those who seized power in kyiv, we demand that they immediately cease military combat action and, if they do not, then the entire responsibility for the continuation of bloodshed will be completely and absolutely on the conscience of the ruling regime in kyiv. announcing this decisio...

So this town could be in for a very difficult time in the days to come, brianna. >> is that any sort of founded concern that theyre worried about, the city essentially being closed off, alex? >> absolutely. i mean, this is -- this is an area that we have long thought that the president putin would have his sights on because it is smack in the middle between crimea which they illegally annexed and we thought he would be taking a land bridge which would run through here. this is a strategic city a...

Not planning military operation in dundas unless ukrainian military and military would directly threaten the republics which was the case and we have credible information that the military operation was planned and that was inevitable in these circumstances. thank you ambassador for the briefing. i am from cbs news. there have been some reports out of the boarding meeting in belarus from between russia and ukraine, what is it in your view that would bring peace to ukraine and withdrawal of russi...

In moscow, outlandish and baseless claims that ukraine was about to invade and launch a war against russia. that ukraine was prepared to use chemical weapons. ukraine committed a. without any evidence. we saw a flagrant violation of international law, attempting to create two new republics on sovereign ukrainian territory. and that the very moment that the security council was meeting to stand up for ukraines sovereignty, to stave off this, putin declared his work. within moments, moments, missi...

Expect to say spent a lot of time by himself thinking about this. had a clear set of opinions. which didnt necessarily align with everybody els. history. and feels once to say he feels russia is under imminent threat from nato. which is not obviously the case. that was of the most concerning part of this. not so much the formal recognition of the two republics. that could have been happened. something they wanted for a while. its whether or not hes laying out the broader case. and then making hi...

It means two basic scenarios. the best is that mr. putin will be satisfied recognizing independence of so-called peoples republics. meanwhile, as putin troops already moved. with ukrainian arms forces and second worst case scenario means vladimir put continue and russian forces will try to work on the borders of the republics and that they should be enlarged. effectively meaning that russian forces and separatist backed forces should attack the ukrainian army. anyway, vladimir putin

You are still also seeing is putin trying to get his ducks in a row in terms of escalating into ukraine. so for example, he asked i believe the federation council for permission to apply the ploy russian forces outside of russian territory. he did this in part to try to bolster the legitimacy of what russia might be doing in the future. in some ways, you saw that yesterday with when i can only describe as his security council meeting, and the speech that he gave last night just by his actions. s...